Micro-mirror which is capable of steering light at a reasonably high speed, is an important component in MEMS solid state LiDAR systems. Longer detection range and larger field of view (FOV) are often ideal in many applications, such as autonomous driving, and those aspects can be achieved by increasing the mechanical angle of the micro-mirror as well as the size of the aperture. However, as the aperture and rotational angle (θopt⋅D) get bigger, the dynamic deformation inevitably becomes larger, thus affecting the collimation performance. One potential solution is to add a backside rib support to the mirror which can reduce the dynamic deformation while keeping its moment of inertia low. Conventional backside rib designs are primarily based on intuitive structural patterns, and the design process is time-consuming. Also, the performance improvement is based on trial and error which does not guarantee success in the end. To shed light on an optimized pattern with the focus of large θopt⋅D and low dynamic deformation, in this paper, we propose a piezoelectrically driven micro-mirror with an optimized backside rib enabled by a particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and iterative FEA modeling. Experimental results show that compared with an intuitive pattern, the automatically-generated pattern can reduce the beam divergence by 30% while keeping the same moment of inertia.
MEMS micromirror is playing more important roles in various applications. To increase the detection range and field-ofview (FOV), bigger aperture size with larger rotation angle (θopt⋅D) is always preferred. However, it comes with the cost of worse collimation performance due to larger dynamic deformation. A backside rib support design can be added to the mirror which can reduce dynamic deformation while keeping rotational inertia of moment low. Meanwhile, integrated piezoelectric actuator can be adopted to provide large driving force and to increase the rotation angle. In this paper, we demonstrate a MEMS micromirror actuated by integrated PZT thin film, with a large aperture size of 12mm×18mm and resonant frequency of 1.65 kHz can achieve 4.8° optical angle under 20 Vpp driving voltage. Design rules are deduced from the theoretical analysis to improve the performance of piezoelectric-actuated MEMS mirror.
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